I Wonder
I Wonder About the Inside of Earth
For weeks we’ve been talking about the surface of Earth, like that it’s broken up into pieces called plates. And these plates move around, pushed or pulled by currents in the mantle, whatever a mantle is. Then there’s magma or lava coming out of volcanoes is that the Earth spilling out its guts?
So I wonder. [...]
Ocean Studies
We took a very different route towards learning this time. We started with a simple “I Wonder” question “I wonder what causes ocean circulation?”. No introduction from the teacher, no movies, no textbooks, no experiments, not even the internet, just students discussing their ideas.
Then we combined ideas from all the classes, asked a few questions [...]
Water Cycle Inquiry
While some of you are working on your creative version of the water cycle song (dance?), which we’ll post here, we are moving on and looking more closely at the mechanisms of the water cycle.
The basics of the water cycle, those marked in red, should be familiar to most students. But how well do you [...]
I wonder …
“I wonder …..” you fill in the rest.
That’s the theme for science this year. Somehow I hope to rekindle the child-like wonder and amazement at the world which surrounds us. Throughout the year I’ll encourage you to wonder — “I wonder why this happens” “I wonder how this works” “I wonder what would happen if”. [...]
Look Out A Meteoroid Is Coming!!
How much damage might it do? Well that’s your job to determine, as you create an experiment to identify the variables that most influence the impact. This activity reviews the basics of the scientific method while looking at a common Hollywood theme.
Brainstorm some ideas, narrow your focus, research your topic, and then design your experiment. [...]
Water Resources and Your Community
When we started this activity we set 4 goals:
To develop an understanding of the distribution of salt and fresh water on the earth (how it’s spread out or separated)
To learn what sources of water we use in Winter Garden
To create a model of how water moves between reservoirs (places that hold water) within the water [...]
Applying the Old to the New
Hopefully many of you (students and parents) are visiting the site for the first time today, if so great! Welcome to My Science Space, take a good look around and leave me a comment.
Speaking of comments, I just read a new comment left tonight on an old post from April. When you post a comment [...]
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